Readings

Required Texts

Buy at Amazon Gibbons, Robert. Game Theory for Applied Economists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780691003955.

Buy at Amazon Morrow, James D. Game Theory for Political Scientists. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780691034300.

LEC # TOPICS READINGS

I. Games of Complete Information

1

Normal Form Games I

Gibbons. Chapter 1.

Morrow. Chapter 4.

2

Normal Form Games II

Gibbons. Chapter 1.

Morrow. Chapter 4.

3

Normal Form Games III

Gibbons. Chapter 1.

Morrow. Chapter 4.

4

Normal Form Games IV

Handouts (Tullock, Ordeshook)

5

Extensive Form Games I

Gibbons. Chapter 2.

Morrow. Chapter 5.

6

Extensive Form Games II

Gibbons. Chapter 2.

Morrow. Chapter 5.

7

Extensive Form Games III

Morrow. Chapter 5.

8

Repeated Games

Gibbons. Chapter 2.

Morrow. Chapter 9.

Handout (Cramer)

II. Games of Incomplete Information

9

Normal Form Games

Gibbons. Chapter 3.

Morrow. Chapter 6.

10

Extensive Form Games I

Gibbons. Chapter 4.

Morrow. Chapter 6.

11

Extensive Form Games II

Gibbons. Chapter 4.

Morrow. Chapter 8.

12

Extensive Form Games III

Gibbons. Chapter 4.

Morrow. Chapter 9.